In praise of … the pop impresario | Editorial

Without them pop would not have many of its major talents, or its most salacious talesMalcolm McClaren got his final send-off yesterday, in a suitably flamboyant funeral at Highgate cemetery. But something else was laid to rest with the one-time punk and full-time awkward sod: the short but glorious line of pop impresarios. Men – and they were almost all men – like Larry Parnes (responsible for Billy Fury), Andrew Loog Oldham (who discovered Marianne Faithful and the Rolling Stones...

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